It remains only to show … the uses of the Law. And the first use of it, without question, is to convince the world of sin … . By this is the sinner discovered to himself. All his fig leaves are torn away, and he sees that he is wretched and poor and miserable, blind and naked. The Law flashes conviction on every side. He feels himself a mere sinner. He has nothing to pay. His mouth is stopped and he stands guilty before God. To slay the sinner is, then, the first use of the Law; to destroy the life and strength wherein he trusts, and convince him that he is dead while he liveth; not only under the sentence of death, but actually dead unto God, void of all spiritual life, dead in trespasses and sin … He cries out, O what love have I unto thy Law! All the day long is my study in it; he sees daily, in that divine mirror, more and more of his own sinfulness. He sees more and more clearly, that he is still a sinner in all things—that neither his heart nor his ways are right before God; and that every moment sends him to Christ. … Therefore I cannot spare the Law one moment, no more than I can spare Christ; seeing I now want it as much to keep me to Christ, as I ever wanted to bring me to Him. Otherwise this evil heart of unbelief would immediately depart from the living God. Indeed each is continually sending me to the other—the Law to Christ and Christ to the Law. - John Wesley
Posted on: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 19:00:40 +0000
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